What helped me a lot was also browsing the ExampleTool and ExampleToolGUI inside Renoise… the internal editor already does Syntax highlighting which is a real plus in this matter.
Also the existing tools can give you a relieve on much matters.
For example tools that use the iterators to change a lot of pattern content like FindAndReplace, RanomizeNotes and EpicArpeggiator do a lot of stuff with various columns. (to find them and to compare content and change content)
The API docs are for me a reference:what doe i exactly need and theexisting (example) tools are guides to help me along further.
dont really know if this is the right plae to post this
but im trying to enable the hidden development tools in renoise,but i dont quite understand this part(copy/pasted from the website)
Launching the Renoise executable with the argument “–scripting-dev”
(the above part i dont really understand??
Opening Renoise’s config.xml file from the preferences folder, and set the
property to “true”. This way, you don’t have
to pass the above mentioned argument all the time…
(i have tried editing the config.xml with the above but nothing happens.)